Dr. Willis. Dear Sir: Dr. Fogg very kindly sent me the following in regard to Dr. Edmund Coffin; and in answer to your query in the March Old Eliot, I venture to send it to you:

"Dr. Edmund Coffin was born in Newbury, Mass., March 19, 1708. He was the sixth son of Hon. Nathaniel Coffin. He removed from Newbury to Kittery, Maine, [now Eliot,] about 1730, and commenced practice as a Physician. His residence was near the house of Mr. Sylvester Bartlett. He was buried in its close vicinity, and his tombstone may yet be seen. He married Shuah Barllett, November 15, 1732. She was born January 1, 1716."

"In regard to Dr. Willis' inquiry in the March Old Elliot, I would say, it is a matter of record that Dr. Edmund Coffin married Shuah Bartlett, daughter of Capt. Nathan and Mrs. Shuah (Heard) Bartlett, November 15, 1732. Both were of Kittery (now Eliot.) Their marriage intentions were announced and entered "September ye nth, 1732."

"My father, [James W. Battlett,] says that the Dr. lived in the house which stood near the foot of our garden; and that his grave is in the burying ground in Uncle Sylvester Bartlett's field opposite this house."

Without doubt the first physician to settle in the upper parish of Kittery, now Eliot, was Dr. Edmund Coffin. Born in Newbury, Mass., March 19, 1708; the sixth son of the Hon. Nathaniel Coffin. He removed from Newbury to Eliot, about 1730; and commenced practice as a physician. He married Shuah Bartlett, the daughter of Capt. Nathan and Shuah (Heard) Bartlett. The marriage intention was entered " Sept. ye nth, 1732."

Dr. Coffin's house stood near the home of Mr. James W. Bartlett, at the foot of the garden; and his grave is in the old burying ground in the field of Mr. C. Edward Bartlett. His gravestone may yet be seen. He had thirteen children, the youngest born in 1759.

Two sons of Dr. Coffin,—Nathan and Nathaniel,—were patriots of the Revolution, and proved their zeal by actual service. Nathan was Sergeant, Capt. T. Fernald's Co. 30th Foot Reg. United Colonies; enlisted May 3, 1775. He was then twenty-six years old.

Nathaniel was First Lieut. Capt. John Shapleigh's Co. Coast Guards, at Kittery Point, in 1775; and in Capt. Hubbard's Co. Coast Guards, January to November, 1776. —See July Old Eliot, pp. 106, 119.

In Coffin's history of Newbury, page 210, is a letter, written by Dr. Coffin, of Eliot, to his father; and on page 337, is another communication.

In the Berwick town records, 1730, we find the following: 'Voted that three pounds be granted to Dr. Edmund Coffin, for the prime cost of his medicines, in doctoring Ebenezer Beltwood in his long and lingering sickness, when on his deathbed."

Dr. Edmund, son of Hon. Nathaniel Coffin, was born in Newbury, Mass., 19 March 1708. His father, born 22 March 1669, was son of Tristam Coffin, born in 1632, who was son of Tristam born 1609 in Brixam Parish, Plymouth, Eng. Dr. Coffin removed to what is now Eliot about 1730 and commenced practice as a physician. He married, 15 Nov. 1732, Shuah, dau. of Nathan Bartlett. Children: